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September 6, 2003
Welcome to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's weekly news quiz program. Find out how well you know your news by playing the interactive online version below. You can also listen to this week's show with host Peter Sagal.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
CARL: "Would you like some freedom fries with your crow, Mr. President?"
That's Salon.com's headline describing President Bush's turnaround this week, asking what group to help the United States rebuild Iraq?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "[He] is -- let me be gentle -- [He] is not someone that is exciting my neighbors."
That's Ames, Iowa resident Shelby Moore offering a very Midwestern assessment of a Democrat who made his candidacy for the White House official this week. Who?
Hint: So far he's best known for his hair and his service in Vietnam.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited."
That was one actor's assessment of his own looks. He died this week at the age of 81. Who was it?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "He regularly turns up at a campaign event, delivers the same speech with the same jokes, and walks away with another $4 million. No gimmicks needed."
That's The Financial Times noticing that at least one presidential candidate is having an easy time of it. Who?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "A (British bookmaker) likened the odds to the chance that a manned expedition to Mars would arrive and discover the Loch Ness Monster there, or the equally probable scenario that Elvis Presley would reappear and marry Madonna."
That's Sky News downplaying something that was the subject of much hype on Tuesday. What, as it turns out, will not end all life on earth in 2014?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
Carl: "There is also, inevitably, the 'they're still alive' factor. Patti Page? Still alive! Julius La Rosa is still alive. Tony Orlando is still alive and seemed to be singing 'Purple Rain.'"
That was Tom Shales in The Washington Post writing about what annual Labor Day television rite?
Hint: It's 21 hours long, and feels it.
• Answer 6
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